Hehe, yes, I took the shotgun approach. The MySQL lists don't seem to be quite as active, and the MySQL forum moderators seem to take about 1-2 days before they approve my posts.
Hmm... thanks for pointing that out about system metadata caching. I'll have the solve the problem of MariaDB thinking something exists (table/index/...) when it doesn't, or thinking that something doesn't exist when it does.... Thanks for your help! Jonathan On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 1:21 PM MARK CALLAGHAN <mdcal...@gmail.com> wrote: > This discussion is much more interesting than the one on the quiet MySQL > lists. I assume you need to worry about the top half caching dictionary > information about indexes & tables. > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Jonathan Ellithorpe <j...@cs.stanford.edu > > wrote: > >> I see... so the MariaDB top-half (by "top-half" I mean everything that >> sits above the storage engine) doesn't do nasty things like caching? If it >> did, then writes at other MariaDB sites wouldn't show up in reads performed >> at the site caching the data. >> >> If the MariaDB top-half does nothing more than essentially translate user >> operations / queries into calls on the SE, then in theory nothing special >> must be done to deploy MariaDB at multiple sites accessing a shared storage >> engine. >> >> Jonathan >> >> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:20 PM Daniel Black <daniel.bl...@au1.ibm.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 20/07/16 14:31, Jonathan Ellithorpe wrote: >>> > Follow-up: I see in the blog pointed to by Daniel mentioned an SE for >>> > Cassandra.... so I take it the answer is yes? Does anyone have >>> > experience with this / know if anything "extra" must be done to make >>> > that work? >>> >>> It falls to the responsibility of the storage engine to ensure that the >>> ACID guarantees are implemented. >>> >>> > Jonathan >>> > >>> > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 9:23 PM Jonathan Ellithorpe < >>> j...@cs.stanford.edu >>> > <mailto:j...@cs.stanford.edu>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Thanks for the references! That helps a lot >>> > >>> > One other question I have is: can MariaDB work in a distributed >>> > fashion? To be more clear, the storage backend I'm developing is >>> > distributed, like Cassandra, and I would like to deploy many >>> MariaDB >>> > instances that all access the same storage cluster. Can this be >>> done? >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss >>> Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss >> Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > > -- > Mark Callaghan > mdcal...@gmail.com >
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